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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: autoconf
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 08:19:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0c9abaef-6147-ffb1-2eb3-245bed608cc1@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO1jNwsB2Pz39KssoKjBoT3WTNmz35r-TnUkUt0d_=YfZuA9ug@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/2/2021 5:15 AM, Jan Nijtmans via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Somewhere in cygport, a check is done for the autoconf version, please
> change this check to allow autoconf 2.71 (as well as 2.59 and 2.69).
> Then I can put back the "cygautoreconf" line in tcl.cygport.

You can do this locally until someone gets around to patching cygport.  Just 
patch /usr/share/cygclass/autotools.cygclass like this:

--- autotools.cygclass~ 2020-05-10 12:06:42.000000000 -0400
+++ autotools.cygclass  2021-12-02 08:14:34.546334100 -0500
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@
                 WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5

                 case $(autoconf --version 2> /dev/null | head -n 1) in
-                       autoconf*2.[56]?) ;;
+                       autoconf*2.[567]?) ;;
                         *)      error "autoconf2.5 is required to build this 
package" ;;
                 esac


Ken

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-02 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-30 20:29 autoconf Marco Atzeri
2021-12-01 19:56 ` autoconf Achim Gratz
2021-12-02  6:08   ` autoconf Brian Inglis
2021-12-02  7:23     ` autoconf ASSI
2021-12-02  9:21       ` autoconf Corinna Vinschen
2021-12-02 10:15         ` autoconf Jan Nijtmans
2021-12-02 10:40           ` autoconf Corinna Vinschen
2021-12-02 10:45             ` autoconf Jan Nijtmans
2021-12-02 13:18           ` autoconf ASSI
2021-12-02 13:32             ` autoconf Corinna Vinschen
2021-12-02 16:36               ` autoconf Ken Brown
2021-12-02 13:19           ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-12-02 18:18             ` autoconf Achim Gratz
2021-12-02 19:41               ` autoconf Achim Gratz

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